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Spotlight | Zambia
REBOUND

After paying back arrears on its loans that had led the World Bank to freeze all credits in September, Zambia is now set to receive help from the World Bank, IMF and other lending institutions in breathing new life into [...]

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Energy

Zimbabwe
Black empowerment in debt

Local banks in economic difficulty will need to call in the loans that were used to finance the black empowerment agreements.

Subscribers only 02.04.2004

Indian ocean
James P. Bond

The successor to Hafez Ghanem at the post of regional director, South-West Indian Ocean of the World Bank will take [...]

Subscribers only 26.03.2004

Mozambique
Suspense on the Sena Line

The World Bank is waiting for the government to choose a concessionaire for the Sena railroad before setting the amount of its financial engagement.

Subscribers only 28.11.2003

Zimbabwe
An Uncertain Mining Deal

The minister of mines is trying to ensure that if the Ashanti gold mine is put up for sell, it will be transferred to a local consortium of his choice.

Subscribers only 17.10.2003

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa Eyes a Bank

The speaker of the Harare parliament, often presented as a possible successor to President Robert Mugabe, is eyeing a bank.

Subscribers only 18.07.2003

Zimbabwe
Coca-Cola Sells Schweppes Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean businessman Mutumba Mawere, a close associate of Emmerson Mnangagwa, the president of the national assembly, has just clinched a [...]

Subscribers only 16.05.2003

Kenya, Zimbabwe
Elisha Muzonzini

Last week, President Robert Mugabe appointed the head of Zimbabwe's secret service to serve as the country's high commissioner to [...]

Subscribers only 18.10.2002

Zimbabwe
Implanting in Zimbabwe

The economic situation that Zimbabwe is going through has not [...]

Subscribers only 30.08.2002

Madagascar
Mining Expert Heads for Madagascar

An official of the World Bank in charge of following [...]

Subscribers only 30.08.2002

Spotlight | Mozambique
ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Another mandate for presidential-candidate Joaquim Chissano, whose re-election in the face of competition from rival runner Afonso Dhlakama seemed assured as the December 3-4 presidential election approached, will be sharply influenced by the equilibrium between his FRELIMO (governmental) party and [.

Subscribers only Politics 04.12.1999

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

The Chad government signed a preliminary accord with Vivendi to take over management of the Societe Tchadienne d'Electricitre et d'Eau [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.11.1999

Zambia
SMALLER PACKAGE FOR ANGLO

Anglo American is finally back in the saddle again in the saga concerning the main assets of ZCCM that remain [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.11.1999

Tanzania
Mining promotions in Malaysia

The Asia-Africa Investment and Technology Promotion Centre (AAITPC) Web site run by South Investment Business Exchange Link (www.sibexlinl.com) inaugurated this [...]

Subscribers only 06.11.1999

Mozambique
NEW SETBACK FOR ENRON

The announcement by South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation on Oct. 21 that it was withdrawing from the Maputo Iron and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.10.1999

Zimbabwe
TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

The Zimbabwe government and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) have just submitted a draft of a new System Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

Cameroon, Chad
WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

With the pipeline project between Doba and Kribi coming up before the board in mid-October (AEM 258) the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.09.1999

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Following the IMF's lead, the World Bank will on September 13 present a third structural adjustment credit line for Zimbabwe [...]

Subscribers only 04.09.1999

Cameroon, Chad
THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

An obstacle to the funding of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline in the form of a U.S. bill named "Demilitarization for Development [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.09.1999

Spotlight | DRC
MINES COULD DICTATE SETTLEMENT

The mining factor has begun to loom large again as prospects for a cease-fire in Democratic Republic of Congo brighten. Indeed, any accord would owe much to the situation in the industry, with Gecamines (GCM) plunging further into crisis and [.

Subscribers only Energy 30.06.1999

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Chad president Idriss Deby flew to Washington on May 24 to voice his concern over delays in the Doba-Kribi pipeline project to World Bank president James Wolfensohn. Cautious, Wolfenson met earlier in the morning with representatives from three environmental organizations, [.

Subscribers only Energy 02.06.1999

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Of the three regional gas or gas-electricity projects that could be completed by the end of the decade in sub-Saharan Africa the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPG) based on reserves in Nigeria, where 2 billion cu.

Subscribers only Energy 16.12.1998

Benin
WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

The World Bank affiliate International Development Association will shortly approve [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.11.1998

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Ten companies will submit bids when an invitation to tender is issued next week for the privatization of the state-owned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.10.1998

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE DELAYED

No fundamental problem appears to stand in the way of an agreement between Cameroon and the World Bank on the Chad-Kribi oil pipeline and the need to protect the environment and foster economic and social development, according to Patrice Mandengabassa, [.

Subscribers only Energy 07.10.1998

Cameroon, Chad
NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

The World Bank is to stage new negotiations before the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.09.1998

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

The second phase of the Oso development project centered on the production of NGL has been commissioned. Output began at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 26.08.1998

Tanzania
YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

The financial package for the Songo Songo project will be put together completely at the end of 1998, AEM learned [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.07.1998

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

The privatization programme for Madagascar's public-sector enterprises has just been updated by the World Bank with a new timetable dated [...]

Subscribers only 27.06.1998

Chad
GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

A "summit of the seven poorest countries" organized by the Greens on June 12 in the European Parliament's building in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Spotlight | Africa
ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

If Bill Richardson is mostly known for his peacemaking skills as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – he exercised them with talent in Bosnia and in more controversial fashion in the Congo-Kinshasa imbroglio – his appointment on June 18 [.

Subscribers only Energy 24.06.1998

Senegal
HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Hydro Quebec has just confirmed in Dakar that it is in the running to become Senelec's strategic partner following the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.05.1998

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

The Chad-Cameroon oi development and pipeline project that are awaiting the green light for IDA loans - the total was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.04.1998

Madagascar
SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

The consultant Price Waterhouse who prepared the privatization programme of Solima (petroleum products) according to a cession formula known as [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1998

Madagascar
MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

The World Bank mission which went to Antananarivo last month is insisting that the government must privatize the state-owned banks [...]

Subscribers only 14.03.1998

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

The Exxon group which operates in Chad's oil project and in the TOTCO and COTCO companies that will operate the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.03.1998

Spotlight | Madagascar
WORLD BANK SECRETS

On Madagascar, implementation of the economic reform programme passes by firm spoonfeeding at all stages of local institutions (presidency, prime minister's office, economic ministries, etc) by International Monetary Fund and World Bank representatives. Objective: to neutralize all political interference by [.

Subscribers only 21.02.1998

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Work on the pipeline that is to link the Doba oil basin in southern Chad to the future terminal at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.1998

Canada
PRESSURE ON TENKE MINING

Officials from AMFI (See Spotlight) and the Belgian-South African rail consortium Comazar are firmly convinced the Kinshasa government has done [...]

Subscribers only Energy 14.01.1998

Spotlight | Canada
UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Road repairs around Kinshasa and humanitarian missions were all that Laurent Kabila's government won from the "Friends of the Congo" conference organized under the auspices of the World Bank on Dec. 3-4 in Brussels. The "stabilization and recovery" plan prepared [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.12.1997

Madagascar
GLENCORE PROJECTS

Glencore, a large Swiss-based petroleum trader, recently approached a Paris bank to propose a financial package for Madagascar. The deal [...]

Subscribers only 25.10.1997

Niger
NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Nigelec has been marked down for IMF-World Bank-type privatization along with the water company SNE and oil storage firm Sonidep. [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.03.1997

Ethiopia
CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

An Ethiopian company has kicked off a project to extract and process up to 65,000 tons of liquid petroleum products [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.03.1997

Ethiopia
TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Ethiopia's energy and mines ministry signed two contracts for studies last month with BEICIP-Franlab, the consultancy and international engineering unit [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.1997

Spotlight | Africa
FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Forty four projects had been accepted by the end of 1996 or were at an advanced stage in the French Global Environment Fund's (FFEM) pipeline. The projects slated to receive grants from the Fund organized by the Caisse Francaise de [.

Subscribers only Energy 05.02.1997

Tanzania
LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

The liberalization of Tanzania's oil industry, which has long been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.01.1997

Gabon
OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Ocelot Energy won two licences to be operated on a production sharing basis in Gabon following negotiations that were already [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Sao Tome and Principe
FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

A project to establish a free trade zone in Agulhas [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

As Equatorial Guinea is a small country with rich oil prospects several big groups are scrambling to install the first [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.12.1996

Uganda
PROMISES, PROMISES

During the meeting of the World Bank consultative group on Uganda, held in Paris on November 21 and 22, Uganda [...]

Subscribers only 07.12.1996

Zaire
THE SINEWS OF WAR

Zaire's production of precious minerals stood up well during the first nine months of the year and is unlikely to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.11.1996

Zambia
BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

The government has completed the privatization of British Petroleum Zambia [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Nigeria has managed to fend off the threat of oil or other sanctions with for a selective release of jailed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.10.1996

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The International Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has begun work on three projects for loans to Ethiopia, [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

Spotlight | Mozambique
MOZAMBIQUE'S NEW GAS OPTION

Players in Mozambique's as yet-unborn gas sector are pulling out all the stops to find buyers for their confirmed or possible reserves. They have got to find their own new markets and steel and iron now seem the flavor of [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.07.1996

Mozambique
WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

A Portuguese bid to acquire all or part of the shares of the government and/or Lonrho in the Beira-Harare pipeline [...]

Subscribers only Energy 29.05.1996

Mali
TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

The World Bank has announced approval by the International Development Association (IDA) of a $23 million loan that had been [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.05.1996

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

The timetable will be honored, as with electricity-generation, but the privatization of Congo's downstream oil sector will leave a government [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.05.1996

Spotlight | Mozambique
GET THINGS MOVING

The approaching World Bank consultative group on Mozambique has relaunched the debate on cleaning up Mozambique's state-owned companies. International fund donors are expected to use the Paris meeting (April 17 and 18) to jog the Maputo authorities over their failure [.

Subscribers only 30.03.1996

Kenya
STEP BY STEP REFORMS

A meeting of the consultative group of donors for Kenya held in Paris under the auspices of the World Bank [...]

Subscribers only Energy 27.03.1996

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Work is shortly to begin on the liquefaction plant that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) is to build at [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.1996

Tanzania
AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

After four years of studies and negotiations, an agreement to proceed with the Songo Songo gas and electricity project was [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.1995

Algeria
WORLD BANK LOAN

The World Bank is considering a $75 million loan to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.1995

Madagascar
GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

The opening of Madagascar's electricity sector to "private capital" has been underscored in a so-called "outline document for economic policy" [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.1995

Nigeria
REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

An agreement to build a regional gas pipeline tying Benin, Togo and Ghana into the fields in Nigeria's Escravos basin [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Congo
PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

AEM understands that the World Bank is counting on Congo's privatization process being completed by next June at latest. The [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Spotlight | Kenya
KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

The Kenyan government and the Kenya Power & Lighting Corporation (KPLC) unveiled their energy projects, loan requirements and the reforms they've already undertaken during a conference with donors on Sept. 11-12 in Paris. But no fresh funds were offered and [.

Subscribers only Energy 20.09.1995

Mauritius
CEB NOT A SUGAR-KWH FAN

Appearing as the consumer's friend, CEB claims that the CTUSA project (see Page 1) isn't viable in the long run [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Africa
DROP IN AFRICAN OUTPUT

Total output of crude oil and LNG in Africa last year amounted to 324.5 million tons. The continent imported 28.2Mt [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

South Africa
EDF STICKS TO SMALL-SCALE APPROACH

After undertaking the Kayelitsha project east of Cape Town under an agreement with Eskom in 1991 to participate in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Kwesi Botchwey may owe his downfall to a drillship. The dismissal of Botchwey, a top-rate finance minister who played a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.08.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Marked on June 10 by the largest opposition demonstration seen in Antananarivo since last year, the campaign for the impeachment of the head of state Albert Zafy, which opposition MPs are now threatening to continue inside parliament, has rekindled the [.

Subscribers only 17.06.1995

Morocco
IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

With the government poised to privatize the country's two refineries at the end of this year, draft legislation putting an [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.1995

Mozambique, South Africa
CLOUDY OUTLOOK FOR PANDE

A project backed by the IDA (World Bank) to develop Mozambique's Pande gas field has got underway. But despite a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.05.1995

Zaire
SWIPCO PACT A MAJOR BOON

Zaire's arrears on its ADB debt amount to $400M along with some $11M owed to the African Development Fund, according [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.05.1995

Spotlight | Cameroon
BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

"There is a lack of openness in the oil sector" and a drop in receipts appears inevitable, confirmed a report entitled "Macro-Economic Survey of Cameroon after the Devaluation" commissioned by the French cooperation ministry. The report resulted from a mission [.

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.1995

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

Mauritius' ministers of finance (Rama Sithanen) and energy (Swaley Kassenaly) are expected to be in Paris next week for a [...]

Subscribers only 29.04.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE

Pierre Demangel, who holds the Malagasy dossier at World Bank headquarters in Washington, apparently doesn't hold a grudge against prime minister Francisque Ravony although the latter was targetting Demangel - without naming him - when he commented on April 6 [.

Subscribers only 21.04.1995

Spotlight | North Africa, West Europe
EUROPE-MED ENERGY POOL

Energy cooperation in the Mediterranean will figure high on the agenda at a conference in Barcelona on Nov. 12 between the foreign ministers of the 15 European Union countries and 13 nations on the southern and eastern rims of the [.

Subscribers only Energy 19.04.1995

Congo
GOVERNMENT SELLS ELF CONGO STAKE

No sooner had a law been adopted to allow the government to sell its stake in Elf Congo than the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 05.04.1995

Spotlight | Madagascar
BID TO REVIVE EXPLORATION

Madagascar intends to open all of its sedimentary zones to oil and gas exploration this year with a revised legislative framework allowing for production sharing accords for the first time instead of the so-called "participation" agreements which prevailed under the [.

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Congo
END OF THE OIL-STATE

The government last week took a major step towards privatization as championed by the IMF and World Bank when it [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.03.1995

Ghana
ABOADSE LAST GOVERNMENT SCHEME

The Aboadse thermic power station will probably be the last built in Ghana by the Volta River Authority (VRA) without [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Tanzania
TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

The World Bank has made the closure of the Tanzania-Italy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Mauritius
BIDDING FOR BAGASSE STATION

Prequalification for the construction of a power station running on sugar cane waste and coal has been initiated by Centrale [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.03.1995

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE ACCORD SEWN UP

Long-running negotiations between the Chad oil consortium and Yaoundé over the trans-Cameroon pipeline that is required to carry Chad's oil [...]

Subscribers only Energy 08.02.1995

Nigeria, West Africa
REGIONAL GAS PACT

Nigerian oil minister Don Etiebet signed an agreement in early January with his counterparts from Benin, Togo and Ghana to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.1995

Kenya
EIB FINANCING PIPELINE WORKS

The European Investment Bank has confirmed its participation in bankrolling the rehabilitation of the pipeline linking the port and refinery [...]

Subscribers only Energy 11.01.1995

Congo
CALL FOR CORAF CLOSEDOWN

Congo is preparing to privatize the Congolaise de Raffinage (CORAF) concern in the second quarter of 1995 as the World [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1994

Eritrea
PRIVATE CURE FOR ENERGY BRANCH

The World Bank is calling for the energy sector in Eritrea to be gradually turned over to private hands in [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.12.1994

Zaire
WORLD BANK'S GUARDED OPTIMISM

The World Bank's delegate for Central Africa and the Indian Ocean, Eugene Scanteje, met in late November with prime minister [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Chad
WORLD BANK PREPARES LOAN FOR MAJOR PROJECT

Chad's major oil project has bounced back onto the agenda [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

West Africa
WORLD BANK SET ON GAS PROJECT

There is every indication the World Bank has set its mind on seeing an existing gas pipeline in Nigeria between [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.12.1994

Spotlight | Madagascar
1995 A KEY YEAR

The first invitations to tender are expected to be issued in 1995 for Madagascar's electricity project dubbed "Energie II" while new impetus has been given to reforms in the oil sector although investment in the refinery branch has been shelved.

Subscribers only Energy 23.11.1994

Madagascar
REFINERY DITCHED IN IDA PROJECT

A consultancy will be chosen from a short list by the end of January to carry out three studies forming [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.11.1994

Kenya
HEADWAY ON IDA SCHEME

A delegation from the World Bank was expected in Nairobi on Nov. 21 for talks on a so-called Energy programme [...]

Subscribers only Energy 23.11.1994

Spotlight | Kenya
FREE MARKET BLUES

The companies that distribute oil products in Kenya are facing a choice in the short term of either squeezing their profit margins, not to say accepting losses, or resigning themselves to ushering in the new free market era with a [.

Subscribers only Energy 09.11.1994

Spotlight | South Africa
ENERGY WEEK

"The government has signed with ENH," declared Mario Marques, managing director of Mozambique's Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos. However, it was not with ENH but with Enron that Mozambique had signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Pande gas deposit, [.

Subscribers only Energy 26.10.1994

Tanzania
NEW START FOR SONGO-SONGO PROJECT

A company is currently being set up under the name [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.1994

Spotlight | Africa, Europe
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK: NEW LENDING PUSH?

The level of the European Investment Bank's commitments could climb this year if a number of projected loans currently in the pipeline, and particularly concerning energy projects in Africa, are approved. As the Luxembourg-based institution never puts up money alone [.

Subscribers only Energy 28.09.1994

Cameroon
EDZOA BOSS OF SNH

As predicted (AEM 139), the new secretary-general in the president's [...]

Subscribers only Energy 31.08.1994

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Zimbabwe Black empowerment in debt

Indian ocean James P. Bond

Mozambique Suspense on the Sena Line

Zimbabwe An Uncertain Mining Deal

Zimbabwe Mnangagwa Eyes a Bank

Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Sells Schweppes Zimbabwe

Kenya, Zimbabwe Elisha Muzonzini

Zimbabwe Implanting in Zimbabwe

Madagascar Mining Expert Heads for Madagascar

Spotlight | Mozambique ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Cameroon, Chad DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Zambia SMALLER PACKAGE FOR ANGLO

Tanzania Mining promotions in Malaysia

Mozambique NEW SETBACK FOR ENRON

Zimbabwe TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

Cameroon, Chad WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

Zimbabwe WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Cameroon, Chad THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

Spotlight | DRC MINES COULD DICTATE SETTLEMENT

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Spotlight | West Africa LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Benin WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

Madagascar PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE DELAYED

Cameroon, Chad NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

Nigeria OSO II IN SERVICE

Tanzania YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

Madagascar PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

Chad GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

Spotlight | Africa ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

Senegal HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

Madagascar SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

Madagascar MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

Cameroon, Chad PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

Spotlight | Madagascar WORLD BANK SECRETS

Cameroon, Chad KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Canada PRESSURE ON TENKE MINING

Spotlight | Canada UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Madagascar GLENCORE PROJECTS

Niger NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Ethiopia CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

Ethiopia TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

Spotlight | Africa FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Tanzania LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

Gabon OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Sao Tome and Principe FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

Equatorial Guinea SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Uganda PROMISES, PROMISES

Zaire THE SINEWS OF WAR

Zambia BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

Nigeria PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Ethiopia THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Spotlight | Mozambique MOZAMBIQUE'S NEW GAS OPTION

Mozambique WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

Mali TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

Congo PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

Spotlight | Mozambique GET THINGS MOVING

Kenya STEP BY STEP REFORMS

Nigeria LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Tanzania AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

Algeria WORLD BANK LOAN

Madagascar GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

Nigeria REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

Congo PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

Spotlight | Kenya KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

Mauritius CEB NOT A SUGAR-KWH FAN

Africa DROP IN AFRICAN OUTPUT

South Africa EDF STICKS TO SMALL-SCALE APPROACH

Ghana KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Mali, Senegal, Togo
The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

Spotlight | Zambia
REBOUND

Zimbabwe
Black empowerment in debt

Indian ocean
James P. Bond

Mozambique
Suspense on the Sena Line

Zimbabwe
An Uncertain Mining Deal

Zimbabwe
Mnangagwa Eyes a Bank

Zimbabwe
Coca-Cola Sells Schweppes Zimbabwe

Kenya, Zimbabwe
Elisha Muzonzini

Zimbabwe
Implanting in Zimbabwe

Madagascar
Mining Expert Heads for Madagascar

Spotlight | Mozambique
ELECTORAL SCENARIOS

Cameroon, Chad
DOBA VICTIM OF GLOBALIZATION

Zambia
SMALLER PACKAGE FOR ANGLO

Tanzania
Mining promotions in Malaysia

Mozambique
NEW SETBACK FOR ENRON

Zimbabwe
TIGHT TIMING FOR NEW PLAN

Cameroon, Chad
WORLD BANK COVERS ITSELF

Zimbabwe
WORLD BANK FOLLOWS SUIT

Cameroon, Chad
THREAT TO PIPELINE LOOMS LARGE

Spotlight | DRC
MINES COULD DICTATE SETTLEMENT

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
THE LAST BUMPY MILE

Spotlight | West Africa
LAST OBSTACLES TO GAS PIPELINE

Benin
WORLD BANK LOAN ON WAY

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION LOOMS FOR SOLIMA

Spotlight | Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE DELAYED

Cameroon, Chad
NEW PIPELINE BARGAINING

Nigeria
OSO II IN SERVICE

Tanzania
YEAR 2000 START FOR SONGO SONGO

Madagascar
PRIVATIZATION TIMETABLES

Chad
GREENS FRET OVER PIPELINE PLAN

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ENVIRONMENT, MARKET APPROACH GAINS GROUND

Senegal
HYDRO QUEBEC BIDS FOR SENELEC

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

Madagascar
SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

Madagascar
MAYBE HELP FOR PRIVATIZATION

Cameroon, Chad
PIPELINE WAITS IDA GREEN LIGHT

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WORLD BANK SECRETS

Cameroon, Chad
KICKOFF FOR PIPELINE

Canada
PRESSURE ON TENKE MINING

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UNDER WORLD BANK'S WATCHFULL EYE

Madagascar
GLENCORE PROJECTS

Niger
NIGELEC ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

Ethiopia
CALUB PROJECT UNDERWAY

Ethiopia
TWO STUDIES FOR BEICIP

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FRANCE'S NARROW GREENHOUSE EFFECT PIPELINE

Tanzania
LIBERALIZATION HALFWAY HOME

Gabon
OCELOT LANDS ITS PERMITS

Sao Tome and Principe
FREE TRADE ZONE IDEA RE-SURFACES

Equatorial Guinea
SCRAMBLE AT MALABO

Uganda
PROMISES, PROMISES

Zaire
THE SINEWS OF WAR

Zambia
BP AND AGIP MARKETING AFFILIATES PRIVATIZED

Nigeria
PRIVATIZATION FOR OIL INDUSTRY?

Ethiopia
THREE WORLD BANK PROJECTS

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MOZAMBIQUE'S NEW GAS OPTION

Mozambique
WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE

Mali
TWO IDA LOANS APPROVED

Congo
PRIVATIZATION WITH CURBS

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GET THINGS MOVING

Kenya
STEP BY STEP REFORMS

Nigeria
LNG PROJECT UP AND RUNNING

Tanzania
AGREEMENT ON SONGO SONGO

Algeria
WORLD BANK LOAN

Madagascar
GOVERNMENT PLANS SELL-OFF

Nigeria
REGIONAL GASLINE PACT SIGNED

Congo
PRIVATIZATION BY NEXT JUNE

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KENYA POWER SECTOR'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCE

Mauritius
CEB NOT A SUGAR-KWH FAN

Africa
DROP IN AFRICAN OUTPUT

South Africa
EDF STICKS TO SMALL-SCALE APPROACH

Ghana
KWESI BOTCHWEY GOES

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ZAFY AND RAVONY AT ODDS

Morocco
IMPORTS MONOPOLY TO END

Mozambique, South Africa
CLOUDY OUTLOOK FOR PANDE

Zaire
SWIPCO PACT A MAJOR BOON

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BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

Mauritius
BIG FAT CONTRACTS AHEAD

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A WORLD BANK CATALOGUE